The shopping mall levels in each gasometer are connected to the others by skybridges. Each gasometer was divided into several zones for living (apartments in the top), working (offices in the middle floors) and entertainment and shopping (shopping malls in the ground floors). The chosen designs by the architects Jean Nouvel (Gasometer A), Coop Himmelblau (Gasometer B), Manfred Wehdorn (Gasometer C) and Wilhelm Holzbauer (Gasometer D) were completed between 19. Vienna undertook a remodelling and revitalization of the protected monuments and in 1995 called for ideas for the new use of the structures. In the scene, General Koskov arrives inside the building after escaping from Bratislava in a gas pipeline capsule, then is escorted to the top of the building, where he is flown away in a Harrier VTOL jet. Gasometer B was featured in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights. In 1978, they were designated as protected historic landmarks. Gas can be stored underground or in modern high-pressure gas storage spheres under much higher pressures and in smaller volumes than the relatively large gasometers. The Gasometers were retired in 1984 due to new technologies in gasometer construction, as well as the city's conversion from town gas and coal gas to natural gas. At the time, the design was the largest in all of Europe.
Once the contracts with the ICGA expired, the city decided to construct facilities to handle its own gas needs. The containers were used to help supply Vienna with town gas, facilities which had previously been provided by the English firm Inter Continental Gas Association (ICGA).
The Gasometers were built from 1896 to 1899 in the Simmering district of Vienna near the Gaswerk Simmering gas works of the district.
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